Mommy issues: Meet the unique new voice in stand-up, Zarna Garg

Her jokes are brutal, frank, questioning. Why are we like this, is her overarching theme. She toured with Tina Fey, and now has a special out on Amazon Prime.

Through the first year of her comedy-club performances, she expected each set to be her last, says Zarna Garg, laughing. “I thought we’d run out of people who were excited to hear an Indian mom’s stories.”

Instead, it turned out that the homemaker from New York (via Mumbai) had struck comedy gold. As she told tales of her inability to not parent (“at the checkout counter, if the person is young, I tell them, ‘Do your MCAT; take the CPA